On 07/01/2012 01:00 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Considering I can build a pgsql 8.4 machine with 256G RAM and 64
> Opteron cores and a handful of SSDs or HW RAID that can do REAL 7k to
> 8k RW TPS right now for well under $10k, 20k TPS on an in memory
> database isn't all that impressive.
Again, their TPS numbers are useless without a contest of how big each
transaction is, and we don't know. I can take MemSQL seriously when
there's a press release describing how to replicate their benchmark
independently. Then it's useful to look at the absolute number.
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